Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Recall of Conditioned Fear Extinction

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 123-129

  Straus, Laura D ^a,b   Acheson, Dean T ^a,c   Risbrough, Victoria B ^a   Drummond, Sean P A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear conditioning; Fear potentiated startle; PTSD; REM sleep; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84999663698     PISSN: 24519022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2016.05.004     Document Type: Article

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